Westfield Athenaeum Library

Research

Academic Onefile

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Over 10,000 journals and reference works

Consumer Reports Jan. 1999 - present

Full-text of The New York Times back to 1995

NPR, CNN & CBC transcripts and podcasts.

African American History

Biographies

Events & Topics

Primary Sources

Timelines

American History Online

Authoritative, curriculum-based content .

Biographies

Events and Topics

Primary Sources

Maps and Charts

American Women's History

Biographies

Primary source documents

Maps and charts

Image gallery

Ancestry plus

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Research by family name

Birth and/or death year

Country and more...
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biography resource center

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Over 400,000 biographies

Includes literary figures, science, business, entertainment, politics, sports, government, history, etc.

contemporary literary criticsm

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Critical essays on contemporary writers

Biographical/critical introduction

List of principal works

Sources for further study

educator's reference complete

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Over 1100 periodicals and 200 reports for educational research from preschool to college.

Every educational specialty

expanded academic asap

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Over 3,500 indexed and full-text titles

Includes 2,100 peer-reviewed.

Includes a wide-range of topics

gale power search

Extensive collection of databases and periodical indexes

Many full text magazine and journal articles

Each database is listed separately on this page, but you can also search them all together

gale virtual reference library

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Over 20 full-text reference books

Covers the arts, biography, business, environment, history, literature, medicine, multicultural studies, geography, and science.

general business file

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Business and management topics

Includes directory listings for over 150,000 companies

Investment analysts' reports on major companies and industries

general reference center gold

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Full-text and images from magazines, reference books, and newspapers

Information on current events, popular culture, the arts and sciences, sports, etc.

grove art

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Images

Art related subject articles

Biographies and timelines

Art Dictionaries and Encyclopedias

health reference center academic

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Full-text nursing & allied health journals

Current and reliable personal health information

InfoTrac General onefile

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Over 9,200 titles

All subjects

Coverage back to 1980

info trac junior

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For junior high and middle school students

Mainly full-text magazines, newspapers and reference books

Current events, the arts, science, popular culture, health, people, government, history, sports and more

CWMars digital book catalog

Hundreds of titles available for downloading and listening
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kids info bits

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For grades K-5 students

100 full-text age appropriate magazines and 2 newswires

Graphs, charts, maps and over 2,500 searchable images

literary reference center

Detailed information on the most studied authors and their works

Information from over 1,000 books and monographs, major literary encyclopedias and reference works, hundreds of literary journals

massachusetts history online

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50 magazines and local newspapers

Coverage of Massachusetts people, places and historical events

Massachusetts Newstand

Access full text articles from the The Boston Globe, Berkshire Eagle, and more

1980 to present

new york times

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Full-text of The New York Times from 1995- present

novelist

A Fiction database that provides reviews,description & much morenovelist logo

science online

Covers broad range of scientific disciplines

Includesanimal anatomy, space, anthropology, archaeology, atomic physics, biochemistry, biology, botany, chemistry, computer science, earth science, environmental science, general science, genetics, health and medicine, human anatomy and physiology, marine science, physics, and weather and climate

sirs knowledge source

Relevant, current information on social issues

Includes primary source documents

charts

maps and illustrations

Springfield REpublican

Full text and indexing from 1988-Current

student edition infotrack

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For secondary school students

Mainly full-text magazines newspapers and reference books

Covers current events, the arts, science, popular culture, health, people, government, history, sports and more.